The Hermitage

collection in the world.
There can be counted near 3

Russian emperors, buildings of Small, Old and New Hermitage and

of the architect Vallin de la Mothe.

in 1775- 1784 by Yuri Felten.

completed in 1787. The architect built its auditorium in the

There are no boxes, circles, or stalls, and the seats for the audience descend to the stage in wide tiers. The Hermitage Theatre was the private theatre of Catherine the Great and her descendents.

of Leo von Klenze by the architects Vasily Stasov and

ten huge statues of atlantes. They were made from the

drawings, engravings, sculptures, but items of decorative and applied art